Technological Collaboration :Key Concepts and Success Factors
Journal Title: Roshd-e-Fanavari - Year 2012, Vol 8, Issue 30
Abstract
"I n today's world, especially after the development of open innovation paradigm, technological collaboration is one of the most important sources of innovation. Because, in the new competitive environment, organizations requires sources of innovation and the current competitive advantages and internal resources are not sufficient for competitiveness. So technological collaboration is an effective tool for developing competitive advantage, which eliminates the gap between current and desired capabilities. This makes the technological collaboration as an engine of growth and productivity in local and international markets and also as one of the most important management tools for improving the competitiveness of organizations and strategic maneuvers in complex and dynamic environments. In recent years, collaboration has been expanded so that five hundred first-class international businesses, have more than sixty percent of strategic alliances. These collaborations are not always necessarily successful and the failure rate has been reported seventy to eighty percent. These failures led to scientific experts' efforts for finding solutions to increase the effectiveness of collaborations, appropriate methods of collaboration, reduce the risks of collaboration and identifying Success Factors. In this paper, after literature review, success factors of technological collaboration are introduced. Understanding these factors provides useful insight for managers and policy makers."
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Reza Ansari
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